Mexico City mayor to resign to pursue presidential bid

Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday she will step down on June 16 to campaign for the presidential nomination of the country's ruling party in an election due to be held next year.

Polls have tended to give Sheinbaum a slight advantage in the race to win the nomination for the leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), closely followed by Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico's outgoing foreign minister.